In fact, it smells so enticing that 90 percent of seabirds eat it right now. And by 2050, nearly all of them are expected to dine on it.

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Animals that face extinction by 2100

Western lowland gorilla Kamba holds her one-day-old son Zachary at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois, United States, September 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

A pair of black rhinoceros walk at the Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservation Park near Marondera, east of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, September 22, 2014. Monday marked World Rhino Day amid dwindling populations of the species due to poaching activities. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo (ZIMBABWE - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT)

A Bengal tiger rests on Global Tiger Day in the jungles of Bannerghatta National Park, 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Bangalore, India, Wednesday, July 29, 2015. India's latest tiger census conducted in 2014 showed a sharp increase in the number of the endangered cats in the wild. The country has nearly three-fourths of the world's estimated 3,200 tigers. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

The Visayan warty pigs, Samar (front) and Panay run at their enclosure on January 11, 2013 at the Berlin zoo. The pigs, priginating from the Polish Poznan Zoo are named after two Philippine islands. Today, the endangered species live only on two islands. AFP PHOTO / MARC TIRL /GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read MARC TIRL/AFP/Getty Images)